The Register's editorial: Schultz's crusade punishes voters

Throwing out legally cast ballots is inexcusable

12:23 AM,
Feb. 1, 2014

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The Register?s Editorial

A felony record can make it next to impossible to find a job and build a successful life, and in Iowa felons also lose the right to vote. Now these social outcasts face the possibility of criminal prosecution if they mistakenly register to vote.

Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz's misguided crusade to expose voting fraud has produced no evidence of voting irregularities, but it has ensnared several people whose crime was making a mistake. These are people with felony records who registered to vote, either because they did not understand the state's confusing registration form or because ...